hand to almost any profitable venture so long as it is not honest. As long as the deluded Burlington police continue to look for vice in the form of homosexual activity they will find nothing; because there is nothing to find. Many homosexuals do not understand this themselves. They somehow believe, because this fringe-area is frequently what they meet first, that it is gay life. Hustling and prostituting certainly is not the major adjustment for the homosexuals in any community any more than it is for the heterosexuals. Nor is patronizing them.

And the Burlington story proves no exception. But while things are hot there, our advice to the queens in the "Queen City" is: don't pack no picks, and don't be caught in public with a pink shirt.

MATTACHINE SOCIETY MEETS

The Mattachine Society held its highly interesting and successful 8th Annual Conference (two more were informally held prior to 1953) in San Francisco over Labor Day. Opening event, September 1, was a reception at the Society headquarters.

Highlight of the next day's sessions was the very practical and down-to-earth discussion of employment problems affecting homosexuals, both civilian and in service, who have arrest or other similar records. Chaired by Donald S. Lucas, Mattachine Social Service Director, the panel consisted of experts in the field of rehabilitation and employment problems: Joseph R. Rowan, National Council of Crime and Delinquency; Mrs. Lillian Stodick, Allied Fellowship Service; Robert Gilbert, Adult Probation Unit; Jan Marinissen, American Friends Service Committee; Charles Ivens, California State Department of Employment. Present as observers were Mrs. Norma Keller, representing the

Daughters of Bilitis, and Inspector Webb, from the San Francisco Police Department.

At the Annual Awards Banquet, Saturday evening, Thane Walker, psychologist, of Honolulu, discussed the need for changed views concerning homosexuality to fit an atomic age. The entire day Sunday was devoted to the annual reports of various departments of the Society and to a roundtable discussion of present trends and policies in the American homophile movement. George Mortenson, Chairman of ONE and W. Dorr Legg, Director, ONE Institute, described the various activities of ONE. David L. Daniel, President, Mattachine Society, and Harold Call, Director of Publications, told of Mattachine work. A paper by Jaye Bell, President, Daughters of Bilitis, explaining their position on many matters was read in her absence. A graduate student from one of the Bay area universities discussed her research project on female homosexuality. A representative of the new Hollywood Assistance League, homophile organization, gave a description of the work they are undertaking.

The Conference closed with a Workshop Brunch at the Mattachine headquarters in San Francisco, Monday, September 4, and was rated by those attending as one of the most valuable the Society has ever conducted. Fuller reports are scheduled for later publication in ONE Confidential.

CALIFORNIANS BEWARE

The repeal of the old vagrancy statute by the 1961 Legislature was a good thing-probably. The uncertainty arises from the very ambiguous and gestapo-sounding section of the new statute which deals with the question of carrying identification on one's person. Like in the European police states? How-

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